Today is release day for GARDEN OF FIENDS! Take a look at these early reviews: For those who don’t know, Garden of Fiends is an anthology of addiction-themed horror, and it contains a tiny story by me along with longer pieces by some great writers. “There’s something here to scare anyone and everyone. Garden of Fiends […]
Truth is Darker than Fiction: An Introduction to GARDEN OF FIENDS
This is a guest post by Mark Matthews, editor and publisher of Garden of Fiends, a collection of addiction-themed horror stories. The intoxication from a pint of vodka, the electric buzz from snorting cocaine, the warm embrace from shooting heroin—drinking and drugging provide the height of human experience. It’s the promise of heaven on earth, […]
What’s The Difference Between a Hotel and a Motel?
Here’s Max Booth III’s Isaac, the main character in the book The Nightly Disease, to tell us. “This is my take on it. Hotels are the kind of places you don’t mind bringing your family to—you can expect good service, a nice breakfast. Motels, on the other hand, are where people take cheap dates for […]
Eileen – Book Review
Eileen is a well-written and strange little book, that is hard to recommend. But stay with me. It’s slow. Fully three fourths of the book are just a few days in the life of Eileen, a rather odd young woman with no ambition and a social recluse by choice. She just goes to work at […]
Coming in Eight Days…
Check. This. Out. Garden of Fiends is an anthology of addiction-themed horror stories from some of the genre’s best and most promising writers (only slightly marred by including a story of mine). It’s out in ten days but there’s a discount offer available for pre-orders (or so the publisher tells me). Authors in the anthology […]
Authors to Read (Part I)
Originally posted on Laird Barron:
Here are a few books published by small and independent presses that deserve the time and attention of weird fiction/horror fans. A Collapse of Horses Brian Evenson  (great American horror surrealist) Furnace Livia Llewellyn (sex, lies, and body horror) At Fear’s Altar Richard Gavin (master occultist) Ghost Summer Tananarive Due (unsung master fabulist) Skein…
I’m Teaching a New Online Creative Writing Class, 16 Weeks Long, About Contemporary Dark Fiction
Originally posted on – What Does Not Kill Me –:
Hello everyone! I’m going to teach a new creative writing class online called Contemporary Dark Fiction. It’ll be SIXTEEN WEEKS long (I know!) essentially the same length as your average semester. It’ll be a mixture of weekly Skype calls (with guest authors dropping in to…
Just a Bit of Great Writing
The following is a short excerpt from Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway that should be enough to either convince to buy the book right away because wow! The book tells the story of a group of teenagers that are trying to adapt to life after living in portal worlds (like the Narnia kids or Dorothy […]
4 Reasons To Get Your Kids to Play Dungeons and Dragons
Remember when people said Dungeons & Dragons were a gateway drug into satanism and juvenile delinquency? Well, they were half-right; D&D is a gateway drug. Only, it’s a gateway drug into things all parents should wish for their kids. I present; four things Dungeons and Dragons can give a child. 1. A life-long love of books Oh […]
5 Tips to Help You Write 50,000 Words in November
Originally posted on Freedom Matters:
Writing 50,000 words in 30 days can seem like herculean feat only to be accomplished by the most prolific of scribes. However, it’s a feat that over 400,000 people attempt every November during National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo.  There is no denying that it is a…
